An As Essment of Family Related Factors Affecting Educational Performance in Addis Ababa: The Primary Schools in Focus
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2013-06
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Addis Ababa Univerisity
Abstract
The 1IIain purpo e of the study was to investigate the socio-economic factors which have an
impact on th academic peljormance of public primary level students in Addis Ababa and
how the level of the problem and interventions made to help these students achieve the
required results in education. The central idea of this study was finding out the key socioeconomic
fa tors affecting the low peljorming students in the public schools in order to
improve their results. For this to happen the study recommends the actors in the study to
focus !provide more support/effort as was done for the other regions even though the
economic situation of Addis Ababa is relatively better than the other rural areas. Based on
the exi ting literatures and the objective of the study research questions were formulated.
Parents and academic staff were sources of data for the study. Only qualitative method was
used to collect data for the study. Interview and Focus Group Discussions were the
in trument u ed to collect data. The instruments used for the study helped to investigate all
the possible factors affected the academic peljormance in public primary schools. The major
finding of the study are economic and family related factors and lack of continuous and
oordinated adequate interventions in the city. A number of other crosscutting issues which
were interrelated with education were identified. The study indicated that more intervention
i needed by the actors in education sector to improve the public school achievements in
Addis Ababa. The public schools in the city are the main places where high school dropout
rate is found. Therefore, this clearly indicates that to decrease the dropout rate the local and
non-local actors should put their efforts together and start working in the public schools in
the city. Different socioeconomic factors were identified by the study. Thus these are
important intervention areas for the actors interested in community areas to engage
themselves and bring the intended result and help students in the public schools to continue
their education and also achieve the desired results. In general the results of this specific
study can be important input for those who want to work on identifying factors affecting
academic achievement,- school dropouts, under nutrition, and child psychological impact on
education, the -outcome of family follow up on education and many others.
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Education